LJCoffee's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Iridion 3D - The Pacific]

Not bad at all

I have to open with a disclaimer - I very rarely listen to this style of music but I think you've done a bang-up job on it. Sounded good on this end. I have no idea how original this is so I'm giving you the benefit of doubt and going with a 10. Diversity will get you an 8 - by it's nature, VG doesn't seem to be an incredibly diverse genre but you did manage to get a nice cross section of timbres in there. Quite clear and effort - well... how can we ever really judge another persons effort right?

Overall you get a 9 and I'm voting 5 - great track - keep it up!

CyrusOfNaias responds:

Thanks, man! I put a total of about 7hrs into it. That's breaking down the days and my schedule that fluctuates like crazy. You can bet your ass that I can still do better, so look forward to it!

[Static Call (Full Version...)]

Damn nice track here

Some great synths in there - sounds like a little bit of bit-crushing. Nice pad. The guitar is a bit synthetic but damn, it's so hard to find a convincing guitar synth... unless it actually IS a real guitar and now I look like a complete noob :D - my money says it's a synth though - oh well aside from breaking out a guitar what can you do right?

I really liked the almost jazzy breakbeat thing you have going on in places. Just enough to wake the beat up a little without going too crazy with it. I actually would have liked "too crazy with it" as well but what you did seems to fit nicely.

Overall a really decent track - a bit on the short side still but that's cool.

Quarl responds:

Hey, thanks for the review, it means alot to me. Yeah, the guitar is synthetic, but I always play my melodies in real time on my computers keyboard, so there's a little bit of realness in there sort of.

AS for the shortness of the track, I actualy just ran out of ideas. I didn't know where to go with the track. I probably could have brought it back around one more time, but...that would have came off as a little repetitive...dunno, maybe I should have spent some more time on it,

[RAZING ARIZONA(pt1)[v1]]

Fairly bizarre

I've always been a fan of the warped up and the unexpected - not a bad track here - The only part that I felt needed a little extra attention was the percussion - the actual beat is fine, if a bit relentless, I think you could have gotten better results if you used different samples or timbres and mixed up the beats a little more.

It's certainly an unusual track. More people should take a step away from conventions and push boundaries a little. No progress is made by staying in safe areas. No new ground is covered if we stay on the well travelled roads.

Keep doing your thing -

MrWAD2 responds:

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'GENRES' Don't Matter To Me:
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[A Technical Thing]

Not bad..

First off - ignore just about everything that I'm about to say as I'm not into techno so really just about everything here is nonsense...

With the disclaimer out of the way:

Patterns may be different but not enough perhaps... I was expecting something more along the lines of a techno - breakcore thing never repeating a percussive bar - either way though it's not bad. It was missing something though - not sure what but it seemed like it could use a little fattening up - maybe a big-ass pad or two would thicken it a bit.

Honestly, I would have given a 4 but it looks as if you've already been 0'd >:( so I'm 5'ing it to try to help out a bit.

Not a bad track at all - just not my style.

I know - I know, worthless review... Oh well :)

Later!

IamMark responds:

That's not worthless Coffee. Hell I have quite a few of your tracks in my playlist. So getting a review from you is pretty sweet.

I went through quite a few different pads, but they all kind of ruined the song. They seemed to take over which is not what I wanted them to do. Kind of like putting pickles in your burger, they make the whole damned thing taste like pickles.

[Exactly]

Wheeeee, gleeeee

She told me her favorite color was clear and shiny.

Clubby, happy, dancy, trancy, catchy little feel-good tune buzzing right along.

As I'm sure I've said before, I'm not a great judge of trance as I listen to so very little of it - but all in all a nice little track - worth at least a 2... Maybe a 3 ... Aww hell, I'll give ya teh 5!

Syntrus responds:

Thx coffee man

[taxafin]

Loved it.

I just assigned a smattering of 9's and 10's - You'll get a 5 as well.

I'm diggin it though - really liked the mash - percussion was dan fine - Also diggin the diggin the diggin the repeats and the little little twists here an' there.

Sax is always nice - good blend of stuff. I'm also liking the unexpected melodies - great stuff.

snoballandthmonyshot responds:

cheers ler,
think i'm gonna work on this a bit more, get it sounding slick. also picking out more notes on the sax as the days go by so it'll definately be a recuring thang.
go go
;ped

[my first fruity loop:)]

Somewhere in the middle

Not too bad - not my favorite though. I'll still give it the 5. Timbres were all decent, drums weren't bad - I can't really put my finger on it but there was something about it that I wasn't crazy about. Very short but that's no big deal really. Sorry I couldn't give you more info...

snoballandthmonyshot responds:

same here, thats why i finished it there, wasn't really mad about it. i've got serious problems at the minute, keep starting all these tunes that are ok but not great so i get bored, can't finish anything, is really starting to grind my gears.
never mind
;ped

[gwai]

The last of it?

But I love the half-arsed shit. This was a cool track - got nothin bad to say about it. The home-grown samples mix well with the instrumentation. Was that a little effected beatboxing in there by any chance? Sounded a bit like it. Great stuff - keepin it at 5.

snoballandthmonyshot responds:

yo,
like i've said b4 about this and my last couple, nothing really wrong with it, it just doesn't tweak my nips like it should